Judgement! (Remaster) (CD)

Andrew Hill is a highly individual pianist and composer who is often compared with Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, if only by virtue of his uniqueness and forward-looking compositional style. In his teens, he played with Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, and others, and effectively became Chicago's house pianist for visiting artists. During the 1960s, after moving to New York, he made a number of excellent albums for Blue Note, under his own name and with Bobby Hutcherson and Joe Henderson. His later Blue Note sessions display a dense, turbulent, intensely gripping musical approach. He also enjoyed a resurgence of interest in 2003 with the long-delayed release of the large-group PASSING SHIPS which was originally recorded in 1969. Andrew Hill died in 2007.

• Category:  Music  »  Jazz  »  Piano
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• Release Date: August 2, 2005
• Label: Blue Note Records (USA)
• UPC: 724356384125
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105780092
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Personnel: Andrew Hill (piano); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Richard Davis (bass); Elvin Jones (drums).

Producer: Alfred Lion.

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 8, 1964.

Personnel: Andrew Hill (piano); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Richard Davis (bass instrument); Elvin Jones (drums).

Liner Note Authors: Leonard Feather; Bob Blumenthal.

Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (01/08/1964).

Andrew Hill's previous 1964 outing on Blue Note, the trio-only SMOKE STACK, had drummer Roy Haynes sounding so much like Elvin Jones that Hill brought in the real thing for next quartet session, JUDGEMENT! True to form, the always fiery Jones gets things off to an explosive start on "Siete Ocho," with Hill and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson keeping up as best they can. The warmly inventive Hutcherson remained an ideal musical partner for the abstract-minded pianist-composer, which was somewhat the same role that the bluesy vibraphonist Milt Jackson played with John Lewis in the Modern Jazz Quartet--except that, as a pianist, Andrew Hill is nowhere near as restrained as the spare and sometimes decorous Lewis. The '60s avant-gardist is a prodigious, meaty musician, taking us on a dark, chromatic journey in all his extended improvisations. JUDGEMENT! is like an MJQ session opened up for a musically (and politically) radicalized '60s.

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